Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WHAT YOU WILL-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In this book of essays Author Huxley writes about philosophers and their asininity; idealists; fashions in love; Baudelaire; how differently Wordsworth would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable...
Causes of this undermining were: 1) Warnings from the Federal Reserve Board and other prophets of disaster?warnings which, scoffed at when given, nevertheless filled the Market with a conviction of sin. 2) A period of almost two months (since the Babson Break early in September) in which it had taken strychnine-injections to push quotations ahead. The September slump (currently almost ignored in favor of the peculiar theory that the Market crashed without warning) was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb...
...house) on wheels. In a great wooden tabernacle Evangelist Billy Sunday shouted against sin. The oldsters knew what he was talking about. They knew how the cowboys of the '70s spent their holidays in Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still...
...days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might have some reason to go and interview the Priest and get absolution next morning." Instant were the repercussions of this story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa...
...performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear on the stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis, she was suspended for two seasons, fined two weeks' salary (some $3,600) by Actor's Equity. After the suspension she turned to cinema, appeared in Man, Woman & Sin, The Letter, Jealousy. Her suspension suspended, she had planned to reappear on Broadway before Christmas...